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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.
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